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Virginia Smith, of Brooklyn's The L Magazine, believes this map should dispel the stereotype that most hipsters come from the Midwest and are largely supported by their parents.

'If you look around you, the rich kids whose parents may or may not be subsidizing their Williamsburg rent aren't, as a rule, the gentle-hearted transplants who just hopped off the bus from Chillicothe with dreams of the big city or whatever.'

Banishing the stereotype: Virginia Smith of Brooklyn's The L Magazine believes the map disproves the stereotype that all Brooklyn hipsters come from the Midwest

This isn't the first time that geography has been used to track the movements of New York's hipster population.

Yelp made a heat map that colored areas of New York where reviewers used the word 'hipster' often.

The 'hottest' areas for hipsters were the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn and Manhattan's East Village and Lower East Side.